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REAL HEALTH CARE AGENDA REVEALED

RICHARD MURRI NIAGARA FALLS DAVID FOWLER WAINFLEET

After gaining a majority of seats in Queen's Park with less than 50 per cent of the vote cast, Doug Ford and the PCs have finally revealed another one of their hidden goals: allow more private, for-profit medical services to compete with existing publicly funded facilities.

After they slapped nurses and other health care providers in the face with Bill 124 which limited their pay and benefits, after COVID put such unbelievable strain on those who were responsible for providing the vital care to those who needed it, many of these heroes, angry and exhausted, retired or left for other positions.

Now Ford and his minions have the gall to act surprised that their actions resulted in staff shortages, unthinkable wait times, and many doctors refusing to work in chaotic hospital conditions.

I wonder how many people now employed in the public health system will, when lured by better pay and conditions, leave the public system to work in private for-profit clinics.

There are already too many services provided which require a co-payment by the patient.

Previous governments that tried to gut public health care were sent packing. The same fate awaits Ford and his accomplices. of the history of the Brownies, decided they are offended and claim the little girls are as well.

I wonder if these people know about the history. Brownies are little pixies or elves, at times mischievous, as can be little girls. The name originated with an author of children's stories, Juliana Horatia Ewing, born Juliana Getty in England in 1841. One of her most admired stories was "The Brownies" written in 1865.

A lieutenant in the British army, Robert BadenPowell started the Boy Scout Association in 1910. Later, he and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell started the Girl Guide movement. Being familiar with Ewing's stories, they chose Brownies as the name of the junior level of Girl Guides. It's not right that the name Embers be allowed to displace a name known and loved for more than a century.

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2023-01-26T08:00:00.0000000Z

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